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Article #620154Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:29
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:29
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On 2018-02-03, J Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 11:49:09 -0800 (PST), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > >> For whatever reasons, AT&T didn't succeed at computers. > > Mostly didn't see where the market was going. In hindsight the way > to structure it would have been to have two of the Baby Bells compete > in CPU manufacture, another couple in hardware, and another one sells > Unix with all the bells and whistles for, say, 200 bucks to all > comers. They'd have addressed all the concerns--second source for > processors, second source for assembled machines, well established > operating system. > > But they didn't do that. AT&T was used to operating in a monopoly environment. They never managed to adapt to a competitive mindset. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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